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VOL. 6, ISSUE 1 (2021)
Sit-tight leadership and presidential transition: An X-ray of the disappointing case of Donald Trump in the United states of America
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Okon Eminue
Abstract
Commitment to smooth and peaceful transition of power is a legacy of the United States’ Presidential system undermined by President Donald Trump. With hindsight of the 2016 Obama/Trump Transfer of power, this paper analyzes the turbulent 2020 U.S Presidential Transition, with incumbent President Trump refusing to concede defeat in “the most secure Presidential election in American history”, won by his Democratic Party challenger, Vice-President Joe Biden. Essentially using the methodology of Library Research, the paper examines the various subterfuges, mostly undemocratic and underhand methods, by which Trump attempted to overturn the result of an election that had clearly been won by Biden, based on Trump’s conspiracy theories that the election he had won by “landslide” was stolen from him. The paper asserts that the crisis engineered by Trump’s rejection of the election result was exacerbated by the fact that Trump, the Behemoth, is the Republican Party, having bludgeoned, propagandized or convinced overwhelming majority of Republican leaders and supporters to unconscionably believe the election was fraudulent and stolen, such that anyone who believed anything to the contrary risked severe recriminations, as Trump embarked on panel-beating everyone into acquiescence. Perhaps, the most dastardly of Trump’s subterfuges was his incitement of his right-wing extremist supporters to carry out an insurrection at the Capitol – an action which produced dire consequences for Trump, Trump Organization and Congressional Republicans, including Trump’s second impeachment, sanctions from social media platforms and from Corporate America, further isolating Trump. The article eulogizes the resilience of the American institutions and proposes far-reaching Electoral Reforms via Plebiscitary Election only, for producing the United States President as a way of preventing a repetition of the “nightmare scenario” experienced at Capitol on 6 January 2021.
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Pages:25-37
How to cite this article:
Okon Eminue "Sit-tight leadership and presidential transition: An X-ray of the disappointing case of Donald Trump in the United states of America". International Journal of Advanced Research and Development, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 25-37
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